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Pinterest is one of the hottest new social media sites and has introduced another slew of questions about its legality. Copyright in particular has been a contentious issue with the picture dependent site. Andrew Mirsky provides a thorough look at the legal issues involved, including images of famous people, copyright – fair use – and trademark. In addition his article “Pinterest: Fair Use of Images, Building Communities, Fan Pages, Copyright” also provides some guidelines in going ahead with a Pinterest account.

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This is a subject that most people don’t want to contemplate, but it’s definitely something you should be thinking about. Who controls your posts on Facebook and Twitter after you die? As of right now, it is the social media site itself. The sites are the ones who set the policy, but a push for new federal regulations may change that. This could be an issue of particular concern when it comes to issues of intellectual property. What about any material that might be copyrighted? It’s not just a matter of personal information that may be stored online; there may also be valuable intellectual property stored there. ScienceDaily’s article “Federal Law Needed to Safeguard ‘Digital Afterlives’, Expert Argues” draws on the article “Facebook’s Afterlife” by Jason Mazzone.

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As a follow up to yesterday’s post on Twitter’s refusal to simply turn over your tweets to the Court, today we are providing a link to Twitter’s first Transparency Report. The report lists government requests for information, government requests to withhold information, and DMCA takedown notices received from copyright holders. The report is helpfully broken down by country. The blog post by Jeremy Kessel also announces a new partnership with Herdict, a Harvard-based initiative that “seeks to gain insight into what users around the world are experiencing in terms of web accessibility.”

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The US is not the only jurisdiction focusing on piracy and shutting down piracy sites, and the UK has joined the fray: “Introduce Anti-Piracy Measures Now, Says Shadow Culture Secretary.”

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Here’s a recent blog post from Perry4Law (an Indian law firm) on the changing legal landscape regarding Social Media in India.

http://ictps.blogspot.com/2011/09/social-networking-laws-in-india.html

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